#era

We were not making love, we did not even kiss, but the inexplicable intimacy we shared left us wordlessly and hopelessly locked into each other's gaze. ↗

— Jasmine Dubroff

#beauty-in-itself #jasmine-dubroff #love #mera #soul-mates

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#belief #essence #faith #family #feminine

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #silence

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#majors #reading-books #love

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#heart #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage

En ningún caso, solía insistir, comprendían los magos necesariamente su arte, a pesar de que la experiencia lo había llevado a un par de conclusiones generales sobre el tema. Por ejemplo, que cada vez que aprendía algo nuevo sobre sus poderes, esos poderes disminuían, o en todo caso, quedaban alterados. ↗

— John Barth

#magia #quimera #art

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#novels #writers #writing #men